whats keeps us humans on the treadmill of life, grinding an exsistance?

Answer 1

Unf*ckingbelievable question!!

Answer 2

The question is worded in a somewhat confusing way, but it suggests that you are wondering why we keep trying when there is so much foolishness going down. Basically that it is lives filled with struggling for most of us, with the occasional Hitler or Stalin thrown in just to add a little spice.

We keep trying because that is the nature of life. It is instinct to try to survive. You can hear it even in the previous answers (Beats the alternative and so on). How do they really know that it does? Have any of them ever been dead? They believe it does because it is instinct to want to live. Whether you believe in God or nature (evolution), the need to survive has been given us and it is almost impossible to think any other way.

Even when some of us do (suicides, freedom fighters who would give their lives so others can live in freedom, terrorists and martyrs doing the same--though not always for a good cause, a parent defending children who would give their life to save another's, etc.), it would never occur that every human would want death and actively seek it all at the same time. It goes against our very nature, so we keep trying.

Answer 3

describing life as a treadmill is one way of looking at it. I've also heard life described as a roller coaster, and didn't someone a bit famous describe life as "a stage and we are actors on that stage" ?

I'm sure you get my point. human existence can be described in so many different ways. it all comes down to how you feel when you do it.

maybe tomorrow you'll be on the roller coaster. maybe the day after you'll be acting out your roll at work.

my advice: be a good actor, enjoy the ride and don't waste too much time on the treadmill, nobody needs to be that fit !

Answer 4

As my father would say "It is better than the alternative" (death)

Also suicide is illegal.


On the last note you may not like life but there are enough people replacing you that the population keeps growing regardless of how many people break the law.

Wow 15 minutes and 9 answers and I though I was going to be the 1st answer.
The common thread is everone thinks it is better than death , so far. Personally I'm affraid of death because I've been told my whole life that I will go to hell , In fact in at least one of the answers to my questions the answer was a very short 'go to hel!' answer

Answer 5

Conditioning. Family, society, and the media have "trained" us to do what we're "supposed" to do. You can get off the treadmill any time you wish although accomplishing that is not as easily done as one would prefer. Abundance is our natural state. If you lack abundance today you are simply not allowing it into your life. I like to say abundance is persistently knocking on your door; your fears are the deadbolts keeping it out.

Answer 6

Have you tried getting off it? It means death..think I'll stay on the treadmill a bit longer!

Answer 7

As we are helpless and can't do anything else. We are bound to live, otherwise we may think to do something different than this.
We did not come in this world by our own choice and cannot leave it by ours elf. Suicide is forbidden, so only option is balance to run with the pace of time.

Answer 8

Probably because it's more attractive than the treadmill of death, grinding on until the end of eternity. :-)

Answer 9

The ONLY reason I stay on the treadmill is so that my family don't have to do the struggling instead!!

Answer 10

It beats the alternative, doesn't it? You may live to be 100 years old, but when you die, you will be dead for eternity.

Answer 11

Excellent question...I don't personally see it as an existence without purpose. God made us to be in communion with Him.